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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1509423" data-attributes="member: 812">Your comment:Is the first insulting comment in the discussion you began. You can handwave it all you like but you are calling people who think the math in 3E is significantly simpler than the math in 2E stupid. That's insulting people.Keep in mind that &quot;general observations&quot; ARE personal attacks on anyone who fits the criteria of the observation. If you say, &quot;Canadians suck,&quot; that's exactly equivalent to &quot;barsoomcore sucks,&quot; given that barsoomcore is Canadian. I am correct to interpret that statement (&quot;Canadians suck&quot;) as a personal attack, because it is one. If you say that somebody who thinks the math in 3E is significantly simpler than the math in 2E is stupid, then yes, you are making a personal attack on me -- because I think that's true. I fit the criteria, therefore the result is applied to me. Personally.Claiming that general observations aren't personal attacks is no way to undo the damage of insults. Either retract the insulting statement and apologize, or stand by your position and defend it. But complaining because people respond to insults with crankiness won't win much sympathy anywhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1509423, member: 812"] Your comment: Is the first insulting comment in the discussion you began. You can handwave it all you like but you are calling people who think the math in 3E is significantly simpler than the math in 2E stupid. That's insulting people. Keep in mind that "general observations" ARE personal attacks on anyone who fits the criteria of the observation. If you say, "Canadians suck," that's exactly equivalent to "barsoomcore sucks," given that barsoomcore is Canadian. I am correct to interpret that statement ("Canadians suck") as a personal attack, because it is one. If you say that somebody who thinks the math in 3E is significantly simpler than the math in 2E is stupid, then yes, you are making a personal attack on me -- because I think that's true. I fit the criteria, therefore the result is applied to me. Personally. Claiming that general observations aren't personal attacks is no way to undo the damage of insults. Either retract the insulting statement and apologize, or stand by your position and defend it. But complaining because people respond to insults with crankiness won't win much sympathy anywhere. [/QUOTE]

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